At a Glance
- Tasks: Redesign traffic flow for one of Australia's largest platforms using cutting-edge tech.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on innovative platform engineering.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, growth opportunities, and a collaborative culture.
- Other info: Great career progression and a focus on developer experience.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by building the next-gen traffic infrastructure.
- Qualifications: Experience with Kubernetes, Istio, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
What if you could redesign how traffic flows through one of Australia's largest platforms? Our Traffic Management team is looking for a senior platform engineer to help evolve how we move requests from the internet edge through Cloudflare, AWS, and multiple Kubernetes clusters running Istio. This isn't about keeping the lights on; it's about building the next generation of our traffic infrastructure.
Architectural ownership at scale
You’ll design and run the systems that route every request across our platform. Think: edge networking, multi-region AWS infrastructure, large-scale Kubernetes clusters, and service mesh (Istio). Your decisions will directly impact how hundreds of engineers deploy and operate their services.
Build platforms, not tickets
This role is heavily focused on developer experience. You’ll create self‑service tools, sensible defaults, and automation that make it trivially easy for product teams to route, secure, and observe their traffic. Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, GitOps) and CI/CD pipelines are your primary tools.
Technical leadership without the meetings
As a Staff Engineer, you’ll influence technical direction, lead architectural discussions, and mentor other engineers but you’ll still be hands‑on writing code, building tooling, and solving complex infrastructure problems. You’ll partner with Engineering Managers, Architects, Security, and Product teams across APAC.
Real impact
We help millions of people find work and build careers. The platform you build enables product teams to ship faster, more reliably, and more securely ultimately helping people connect with opportunities that change their lives.
What you’ll be working with
- Cloudflare, AWS networking, load balancers for edge‑to‑cluster traffic
- Terraform, Helm, GitOps workflows for everything‑as‑code
- Observability stacks for monitoring, logging, and tracing
- CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, fast deployments
- Software Engineering in Golang, Typescript OR Python
What’s in it for you?
- Team: Work with our Head of Engineering, Platforms and a collaborative, high‑performing engineering team
- Growth: Clear pathways into Senior Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager, or Software Architect roles
- Culture: We value passion, teamwork, delivery, and long‑term thinking. We celebrate diversity and foster psychological safety, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
Who thrives in this role?
People who love building platforms that other engineers love using. Engineers who get excited about Kubernetes internals, service mesh design patterns, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code. Technical leaders who care as much about developer experience as they do about system reliability.
Specific experience that's valuable:
- Deep Kubernetes and Istio knowledge
- Strong software engineering skills for tooling/automation
- Hands‑on Terraform/Helm/GitOps experience
- Proven technical leadership across teams
Bonus points for contributions to CNCF projects, multi‑tenant cluster experience, or CKA certification.
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